For more than a million patients every year, the burgeoning U.S. hospice industry offers the possibility of a peaceful death, typically at home.

But that promise depends upon patients getting the medical attention they need in a crisis, and hundreds of hospices provide very little care to such patients…

The dismal glimpse into hospice care provided to patients near death was gleaned from Medicare billing records, internal reports and complaint records.

The neglect is worse for patients in crisis. According to the article, one in six hospice agencies did not provide crisis care to any of its 50,000-plus patients in 2012.

Some attribute it to the lack of inspections at hospices, which the article reports are “among the least inspected organizations in the U.S. health-care system, with most operating for years before an inspector calls.”

The Post also includes an interactive map where readers can choose a state to see how many hospice facilities and patients there are and how many provide crisis care.

More than 43,000 people are in hospice facilities in Pennsylvania, according to the map.

The data also shows 12 out of 107 hospice facilities in the state do not provide crisis care.

Big Pharma has written more than $30 billion in checks in the last 10 years to resolve government allegations of illegal marketing practices, according to statistics compiled by the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen. Nine drug manufacturers each forked over at least $900 million from 2006 through 2015.

In Pennsylvania, 181,000 children have had a parent incarcerated in their lifetime, according to a new nationwide study. That’s roughly 7 percent of the state’s children, according to a survey of data by the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation, which outlines the collateral consequences of mass incarceration on families and calls for urgent reforms by judges, prisons and governments to break cycles of poverty.